We develop an approach to utilize anisotropic metamaterials to solve one of the fundamental problems of modern plasmonics--parasitic scattering of surface waves into free-space modes, opening the road to truly two-dimensional plasmonic optics. We illustrate the developed formalism on the examples of plasmonic refractor and plasmonic crystal, and discuss limitations of the developed technique an...

Clostridium perfringens in sediment samples collected at the Deep Water Municipal Sewage Sludge Disposal Site (also called the 106-Mile Site), off the coast of New Jersey, was enumerated. The counts of C. perfringens found in sediment samples collected within and to the southwest of the 106-Mile Site were significantly elevated (P < 0.01) compared with counts of samples from reference stations ...

At many universities, the focus for evaluations has been on 1) faculty promotion and tenure, 2) teaching performance, and 3) student outcomes. With evaluations and reviews concentrating on these three areas, the evaluation of administrative personnel, including deans, department chairs, and executive personnel, has been critically absent. Given the important functions, demands, and responsibili...

Background: According to World Health Organization guideline (WHO 2010), seminal leukocyte concentration over 1×106/mL is a threat for sperm quality because of their role in reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, lipid per-oxidation (LPO) and later DNA fragmentation (DF). However, this threshold is equal for all semen samples without attention to their qualities. Therefore this study was set...

A new ASTM method was developed for the analysis of trace methanol in crude oil samples. This method relies on the use of two-dimensional heart-cutting gas chromatography to separate methanol from the complex matrix. A new microfluidic Deans switch was developed for the Agilent 6890N GC system that improves the performance of heart-cutting two-dimensional gas chromatography. This system was use...

The book entitled “Deans and Rectors of the «Grigore T. Popa» University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Jassy (1879-2016)” represents a new remarkable achievement in the series of books elaborated by the well-known medical historian Prof. Dr. Dana Baran and dedicated to the study of the history of the medical and pharmaceutical learning from Jassy. The volume starts with a very necessary introduct...

Despite repeated calls for change, the problem of widening access (WA) to medicine persists globally. One factor which may be operating to maintain social exclusion is the language used in representing WA applicants and students by the gatekeepers and representatives of medical schools, Admissions Deans. We therefore examined the institutional discourse of UK Medical Admissions Deans in order t...